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Image for M. BULGAKOV. Adam & Eva. First version, samizdat, 1960s-70s. #2

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Never published in his lifetime

BULGAKOV, Mikhail

Adam i Eva. Piesa v 4 aktakh [Adam and Eve. A play in 4 acts]

BULGAKOV, Mikhail, Adam i Eva. Piesa v 4 aktakh

The very first, Bulgakov's own version of his dystopian play, here in an attractive, unusual samizdat.

Image for [POSTCARD]. For a Sovereign Ukraine...! New York, 1951. #2

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A topical ephemera

[UKRAINE]

Za suverennu Ukrainu i rozpodil Rosiiskoi imperii! For a Sovereign Ukraine and the Dismembering of the Russian Empire!

[UKRAINE], Za suverennu Ukrainu i rozpodil Rosiiskoi imperii! For a Sovereign Ukraine and the Dismembering of the Russian Empire!

Great and unusual US-printed postcard for Ukrainian independance from the Soviet Union, shown as an extension of the Russian empire.

Image for F. RASKOLNIKOV. Otkrytoe pismo Stalinu. Samizdat, 1960s-70s. #2

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A Soviet ambassador against Stalin

RASKOLNIKOV, Fedor

Otkrytoe pismo Stalinu [An Open Letter to Stalin]

RASKOLNIKOV, Fedor, Otkrytoe pismo Stalinu

Samizdat copy of a sharp criticism of Stalin's regim. Rare and dangerous in the USSR.

Image for WEIZMANN, Chaim. Before the United Nations. First edition, inscribed. 1947. #2

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Inscribed by the first president of Israel

WEIZMANN Chaim

Before the United Nations. A Plea for a Just Solution of the Problem of Palestine

WEIZMANN Chaim, Before the United Nations. A Plea for a Just Solution of the Problem of Palestine

Rare first edition of this speech, finely inscribed by Weizmann.

Image for BAKHAREV - MAKHNOVETS, V. Kak derzhat sebya na doprosakh. Geneva, 1900; first edition. #2

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Getting ready...

BAKHAREV V. [pseud. for Vladimir Petrovich MAKHNOVETS]

Kak derzhat sebia na doprosakh [How to Conduct Oneself During Interrogations]

BAKHAREV V. [pseud. for Vladimir Petrovich MAKHNOVETS], Kak derzhat sebia na doprosakh

A practical handbook for revolutionaries caught by the tsarist authorities - pretty unusual theme and rare on the market. Attractive example of the first edition, with provenance.

Image for NABOKOV, Vl. Poetry in samizdat, very rare. 1970s. #3

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Nabokov the Poet – Home-made and illegal in Russia

NABOKOV, Vladimir

Stikhi [Poetry]

NABOKOV, Vladimir, Stikhi [Poetry]

Some of Nabokov's most scandalous poems, of course banned in Soviet Union and here in an illegal "edition" home-made in Brezhnev's USSR. Very rare.

Image for TSVETAEVA, Lebedinyi Stan, first edition. Munich, 1957. #2

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The unpublishable finally published

TSVETAEVA, Marina Ivanovna

Lebedinyi stan [A Swans' Wedge. Poems from 1917-1921]

TSVETAEVA, Marina Ivanovna, Lebedinyi stan

First edition of this important cycle about the Revolution and the Civil War, impossible to publish in the USSR and even abroad for several decades. A very good copy.

Image for TOLSTOY, L. Recent Stories and Articles. First book edition, Berlin, 1894. #1

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A Tolstoy rarity

TOLSTOY, Leo

Poslednie rasskazy i statii [Recent Stories and Articles]

TOLSTOY, Leo, Poslednie rasskazy i statii

Tolstoy the Wise and the Experienced, here in a series of writings difficult to publish in full in Tsarist Russia. A very rare edition, here in its original wrappers.

Image for MAYAKOVSKY, V. Oblako v shtanakh. Moscow, 1918. #1

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"Without censorship"

MAYAKOVSKY, Vladimir

Oblako v shtanakh. Tetraptikh [A Cloud in Trousers. A Tetraptich.]

MAYAKOVSKY, Vladimir, Oblako v shtanakh. Tetraptikh

One of the great poems of Mayakovsky, here in its full version without cut-outs. A fine copy, in the original wrappers.

Image for PASTERNAK, B. Doktor Zhivago. Milan, 1959. First Feltrinelli edition, with dust-jacket #1

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A most famous edition, with literary provenance

PASTERNAK, Boris

Doktor Zhivago

PASTERNAK, Boris, Doktor Zhivago

A very good example of this important edition of the Nobel Prize laureate, with literary provenance.

Image for GRINEV, P. Kak umiraiut v SSSR. First edition, New York, 1954 #2

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At the heart of the Cold War

GRINEV, P

Kak umiraiut v S.S.S.R [How They Die in the USSR. Issue 1 [and only]]

GRINEV, P, Kak umiraiut v S.S.S.R

Fine example of this rare NY-printed pamphlet against the Soviet Union and Stalin in particular.

Image for LAVROVSKII, M. Geografiia vseia Rusi. First edition, New York, 1914. #2

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The Jewish question before the Revolution

LAVROVSKII, M[ikhail] IA[kovlevich]

Geografiia vseia Rusi. Satira. A Satirical Geography of All Russia [Geography of all Russia: Satire. A useful guide for the unconscious]

LAVROVSKII, M[ikhail] IA[kovlevich], Geografiia vseia Rusi. Satira. A Satirical Geography of All Russia

An early émigré publication, printed in New York before the Revolution, and criticsing Russia's autocracy, with a focus on the conditions of the Jewish people.

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FIRST EDITION OF STRAUSS' FIRST BOOK

STRAUSS, Leo

Religionskritik Spinozas als Grundlage seiner Bibelwissenschaft: Untersuchungen zu Spinozas Theologisch-Politischem Traktat

STRAUSS, Leo, Religionskritik Spinozas als Grundlage seiner Bibelwissenschaft: Untersuchungen zu Spinozas Theologisch-Politischem Traktat

First edition of the philosopher's first book.

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FIRST EDITION – IN ENGLISH WITH DUST-JACKET

STRAUSS, Leo

The Political Philosophy of Hobbes: its Basis and its Genesis

STRAUSS, Leo, The Political Philosophy of Hobbes: its Basis and its Genesis

Attractive example of the first edition of Strauss' third work, with the dust-jacket.

Image for ORZHIKH, B. Albom Bortsov za Svobodu. Nagasaki, 1907. First edition, with wrappers. #2

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With the striking wrappers

ORZHIKH, Boris

Albom Bortsov za Svobodu [Album of Freedom Fighters, Pt.1 [all published]]

ORZHIKH, Boris, Albom Bortsov za Svobodu

Impressive publication of a politically active Russian émigré to Japan. Richly illustrated, here with the original publisher's printed wrappers.

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With more than 120 poems

[KUGUSHEV, Nikolai (ed.)] – Anna BUNINA, Gavrila DERZHAVIN, Nikolai KARAMZIN, Vasilii ZHUKOVSKII and others

Sobranie stikhotvorenii, otnosiashchikhsia k nezabvennomu 1812 godu [A Collection of Poems Related to the Unforgettable Year of 1812]

[KUGUSHEV, Nikolai (ed.)] - Anna BUNINA, Gavrila DERZHAVIN, Nikolai KARAMZIN, Vasilii ZHUKOVSKII and others, Sobranie stikhotvorenii, otnosiashchikhsia k nezabvennomu 1812 godu

A "most important monument of Russian culture and literature": one of the - if not the - first thematic anthologies of Russian poetry at the dawn of its Golden Age. An exceptional example, uncut in its original pink printed wrappers, of these very rare two volumes.

Image for BULGAKOV, White Guard, second issue of the second foreign edition, UK, 1971 #2

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With the dust-jacket

BULGAKOV, Mikhail

Belaia Gvardiia [The White Guard]

BULGAKOV, Mikhail, Belaia Gvardiia

An attractive example, with the rare original dustjacket, of the second complete 'tamizdat' edition of the Bulgakov's first novel.

Image for D'AGOULT, Akh, kak vy glupy, first edition in contemp. binding, Moscow, 1793. #2

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With patterned Russian endpapers

[D’AGOULT, Charles (Attrib.)]

Akh, kak vy glupy gospoda frantsuzy [Oh, How Stupid You Are Mr Frenchmen].

[D'AGOULT, Charles (Attrib.)], Akh, kak vy glupy gospoda frantsuzy

Attractive example of this scarce anti-revolutionary tract, published when Catherine the Great was distancing herself from some consequences of the French philosophers' thoughts. In contemporary binding ith zig-zag Russian endpapers.

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